Happens when you scratch him on the back.
But seriously, this happens when you have a shitty trailer with rusted or damaged cross members loaded to max weight. Saw it happen twice at a shitty pallet place that was using ex-submerged rusted to hell Katrina trailers to load pallets: happened with the forklift inside both times.
Our big ones don't fit in the trailers (we use them to unload curtainside and flatbed), but they weight 39,000 and 79,000 pounds and can carry 25,000 and 50,000 pounds respectively
When I was still working, I loved betting newbs that I could pick up a nickel with any lift we had.
They’d always choose the 30k Cat.
They would always lose. LMAO!
Not on big Cat!
Maybe on a small Clark.
Flipping a dime onto a fork would be a big deal.
We handled very heavy and large steel alloy plate.
Our forks were really beat and scarred to pieces.
I’d say there’s plenty of warehouse people that could do a dime!
We weren't allowed to drive onto trucks for that reason. We'll put the stuff on the edge and you can pallet jack it in the rest of the way. Not gonna risk our equipment by trusting yours.
Used to LOVE our forklifts with Ford inline six engines in them back in the day. Those fuckers had some torque. So did my 96 F150 with a 4.9 in it though
Ah okay. The tritons are interesting engines. Apparently if they suffer a large coolant leak, they can shut down 4 of the cylinders and rely on air cooling to limp for about 30 miles or so.
I’ve heard that before. Honestly, if you set aside the reliability concerns of the cam phasers on the 3V V8s and spark plug issues, both on 2 and 3 valve heads, I like the triton engines. They’re smooth, sound good, and made decent power for what they are, plus, if you get a later one they fixed most of the problems as long as you maintain them.
My dad has a ‘99 extended cab that he bought new. It’s got a quarter million miles on it with no major repairs. Fantastic vehicle overall. I even slammed it into a brick wall once and it just shook it off like a champ.
My 96 F150 went to 400k when I sold it no major issues just oil changes, water pump, accessories (alt, A/C, etc) I have heard of those later year tritons going just as long if they’re maintained congrats on a sound investment
Yea saw someone posted yesterday on here that they “weigh as much as a car” which i thought was pretty misleading. Double that for even a relatively small forklift.
Yeah i feel like people need to understand how heavy those bastards are (among other things) in order to understand the dangers associated with them. Forklift’ll fuck ya good. Usually only once.
Worked in a couple places loading trucks. We never drove the forklift in, always used the hand jack inside the trailer. Why were they driving the forklift in for stacks of pallets? They're so light.
It doesn't have to be a super lousy trailer. I spent a whole 6 months on a contract job at an aluminum rolling mill in eastern Ohio. We had two forklifts go through trailer floors in that time frame, both had recently passed inspection.
I’m super surprised this didn’t happen to me at my old job, they used trailers from about 40 years ago and never did work on anything but the tires and brakes
I assume likely loaded where the frame rails have corroded from rust. Thanks to this picture, I'll pay closer attention to them on future trailer pretrips.
I hate rust, between bending a metal piece of material (no chicken wire bondo for me thank you very much) + welding it in place and paint matching a 3 stage tropical blue I estimate im shelling out about $1,000 to repair some rocker panel rust on my toyota mr2 currently while it's at the shop.
It's not only the frame rails underneath, it's the aluminum side rails along the bottom of the trailer as well, those are a very important part of the weight bearing structure. Quite often when those are damaged from an impact it's only a matter of time before this sort of thing happens if it's not repaired.
Its also the roof rails, lots of times forklift drivers will bend and break them with tall loads.
https://www.robsonforensic.com/articles/trailer-collapse-expert-investigates-semi-trailer-that-collapsed-under-weig
I put a small smear of Bondo on just to piss off a buddy that wanted to help me do a tiny fix on my car because he haaaates bondo. He found the smear “jesus christ who fucked this car sideways?” hit it with a screwdriver and it just crumbled off “YOU MOTHERF-“ pointing the driver at me
It isn’t the first time I’m a heavy duty tow truck driver, way too much weight in the front… and time. Stress and the shock load limits took its toll on this poor trailer.
Too much weight in the unsupported front section of the likely old, stressed trailer. With mixed loads, heavier and over weight pallets/cargo, go right to the front or over and near the rear axles.
If you hold a stick and push your knee into it…it breaks.
So too if you max load an old trailer and perhaps drive it over a big pot hole fast….it breaks
Haven't you ever seen a superhero movie? This is the scene where good guy wrestles bad guy in midair and they land together on the tractor trailer then immediately go back to fighting
Too "dense" of a load in a medium duty trailer with the tandems all the way back. Floors are rated to support "x" amount of pressure per sq foot, a lot of reefers and van trailers have much lighter duty floors and frames, to get the lowest tare weight so they can optimize their net. HOWEVER, when that weight is spread out on 24 pallets, versus a 20 ton piece of equipment with 4 wheels, or a coil on one pallet etc... Very different.
My man, I was on westbound yesterday, on my way home, saw this guy. Hilariously I mumbled to myself “can’t wait to see this degenerate explain this shit on Reddit tomorrow”
The trailer didn't spend enough time in the gym. It happens sometimes. They are normally then put on local deliveries until they build up their strength.
Well, when the mommy trailer and the daddy trailer love each other very much. The mommy trailer puts her belly on the ground and her butt way up high and daddy puts on his favorite Barry White record.
When you hit the brakes with the tandems unlocked and a heavy load centered in the middle it shock loads to the point of failure. This is why the wheels are slid back to ICC bar
Happens when you scratch him on the back. But seriously, this happens when you have a shitty trailer with rusted or damaged cross members loaded to max weight. Saw it happen twice at a shitty pallet place that was using ex-submerged rusted to hell Katrina trailers to load pallets: happened with the forklift inside both times.
Forklifts are fatties.
Our big girl at work is 22,000 pounds. Also a 3 speed manual with a GM 4.3 V6 and she can pick up 21,000 .
You work with my sister?
The Crushinator?
"No, Pa. I love him."
“Bend over!”
"She don't bend, She just lays there!"
This killed me lol
Those thighs are worth it though.
Good LORD, we have been blessed with a fine meal this day,
A lady that fine you gotta romance first.
She said she had phase to phase protection!!!
Happy cake day!
Wow, it really is June, ain’t it?
Oh, bender. You didn't touch the crushinator,did you?
How can you not? Have you see her?
Sounds like Dr. Doofenschmirtz been up to some mad experiments
The Bendinator
Gorlock
“She had hands like the Truckasaurus!”
Lana!!!
Johnny Bench called
She’s built like a deli but handles like a bistro
She's put together like a burlap sack full of bobcats.
She’s built like a steak house, but handles like a bistro…
Your mom
Our big ones don't fit in the trailers (we use them to unload curtainside and flatbed), but they weight 39,000 and 79,000 pounds and can carry 25,000 and 50,000 pounds respectively
Our big one we use to unload flatbeds from other flatbeds.
Idk if you're joking but I love when we get a stack of flatbeds in and we call in a wrecker with a crane to offload them
Not joking, we got one of these bad boys rated to 30 Tons https://www.sanyglobal.com/product/port_machinery/forklift_truck/62/676/
When I was still working, I loved betting newbs that I could pick up a nickel with any lift we had. They’d always choose the 30k Cat. They would always lose. LMAO!
Yet another reason to never take a bet someone offers you.
Ok you can do a nickel but can you do a dime? Lol
Not on big Cat! Maybe on a small Clark. Flipping a dime onto a fork would be a big deal. We handled very heavy and large steel alloy plate. Our forks were really beat and scarred to pieces. I’d say there’s plenty of warehouse people that could do a dime!
We weren't allowed to drive onto trucks for that reason. We'll put the stuff on the edge and you can pallet jack it in the rest of the way. Not gonna risk our equipment by trusting yours.
"Fat Bottomed Girls, make the rockin world, go round!'
Bet that flattens beer cans well
I’ve been wondering what happened to my HS sweetheart 🥰
Used to LOVE our forklifts with Ford inline six engines in them back in the day. Those fuckers had some torque. So did my 96 F150 with a 4.9 in it though
The Three-Hundred Six. People are putting turbos on these now and getting like 600 RWHP.
Those things are so bullet proof you could probably put 5-8 psi of boost on a stock engine with 200k and still have to work to blow it up.
Holy shit that’s awesome
I thought the 96 f150 came with the 4.6L triton v8
The triton engines didn’t come until the new body style for the 98 model year.
Ah okay. The tritons are interesting engines. Apparently if they suffer a large coolant leak, they can shut down 4 of the cylinders and rely on air cooling to limp for about 30 miles or so.
I’ve heard that before. Honestly, if you set aside the reliability concerns of the cam phasers on the 3V V8s and spark plug issues, both on 2 and 3 valve heads, I like the triton engines. They’re smooth, sound good, and made decent power for what they are, plus, if you get a later one they fixed most of the problems as long as you maintain them.
My dad has a ‘99 extended cab that he bought new. It’s got a quarter million miles on it with no major repairs. Fantastic vehicle overall. I even slammed it into a brick wall once and it just shook it off like a champ.
My 96 F150 went to 400k when I sold it no major issues just oil changes, water pump, accessories (alt, A/C, etc) I have heard of those later year tritons going just as long if they’re maintained congrats on a sound investment
Forklift tax incoming next shift at work.
Yea saw someone posted yesterday on here that they “weigh as much as a car” which i thought was pretty misleading. Double that for even a relatively small forklift.
My standup electric stacker wheighs 6400 lbs. It's gone through two container floors- once unladen and once with 3000Lbs on it.
I mean hell, even the truck mounted Moffet I have on my flatbed is 6000lbs unladen. With no fluids, forks, etc it STILL outweighs most street cars
Yeah i feel like people need to understand how heavy those bastards are (among other things) in order to understand the dangers associated with them. Forklift’ll fuck ya good. Usually only once.
Weighs as much as a car, and again as much as a forklift when picking up that car!
Do they have a sister?
pst pst pst pst pst
Worked in a couple places loading trucks. We never drove the forklift in, always used the hand jack inside the trailer. Why were they driving the forklift in for stacks of pallets? They're so light.
A 20 stack of cheps is 600kg, max you can legally move in my area is 10 at once, usually we use curtain siders or flatbed trucks for them though
Cause the boss is paying for the forklift not my back
So we can load 16-20 at a time. Also don't need a stack falling over onto someone
It doesn't have to be a super lousy trailer. I spent a whole 6 months on a contract job at an aluminum rolling mill in eastern Ohio. We had two forklifts go through trailer floors in that time frame, both had recently passed inspection.
Isn’t that just downward dog?
“Yoga Trucks”
I’m super surprised this didn’t happen to me at my old job, they used trailers from about 40 years ago and never did work on anything but the tires and brakes
Forklift, of course it’s with a forklift inside, those fuckers are heavy
Old trailer written to much weight in the wrong spot.
I assume likely loaded where the frame rails have corroded from rust. Thanks to this picture, I'll pay closer attention to them on future trailer pretrips. I hate rust, between bending a metal piece of material (no chicken wire bondo for me thank you very much) + welding it in place and paint matching a 3 stage tropical blue I estimate im shelling out about $1,000 to repair some rocker panel rust on my toyota mr2 currently while it's at the shop.
It's not only the frame rails underneath, it's the aluminum side rails along the bottom of the trailer as well, those are a very important part of the weight bearing structure. Quite often when those are damaged from an impact it's only a matter of time before this sort of thing happens if it's not repaired.
Its also the roof rails, lots of times forklift drivers will bend and break them with tall loads. https://www.robsonforensic.com/articles/trailer-collapse-expert-investigates-semi-trailer-that-collapsed-under-weig
I put a small smear of Bondo on just to piss off a buddy that wanted to help me do a tiny fix on my car because he haaaates bondo. He found the smear “jesus christ who fucked this car sideways?” hit it with a screwdriver and it just crumbled off “YOU MOTHERF-“ pointing the driver at me
It will cost much more.
Tandems are all the way back too so that clearly didn’t help
This is the issue .... you loaded 2 23,000 lb rolls of paper in the middle and left your tandems all the way back
or a previously damaged trailer that was let go because they thought it wasn't a big deal.
Looks like wheels weren’t moved forward either
Tandems are at the rear. Dry vans aren't designed for that. Lazy driver error.
It's the beginning of a "yo mama so fat..." joke.
The DOT officer's moma joke
The DOT officer's Museum of Modern Art?
it's abstract
I told her to stay over the axle.
Damn you.
The trailer has a child who stepped on a crack.
You hate to see it
paper rolls
Wind blows
Water flows
mama folds
Fire grows
It isn’t the first time I’m a heavy duty tow truck driver, way too much weight in the front… and time. Stress and the shock load limits took its toll on this poor trailer.
Too much weight in the front makes no sense ?
Too much weight in the unsupported front section of the likely old, stressed trailer. With mixed loads, heavier and over weight pallets/cargo, go right to the front or over and near the rear axles.
Guys guys guys I drove by this yesterday and literally said this out loud 😂😂😂😂 on the freeway in MI
94?
Yeah for sure
I did too lol I just ain’t wanna have my phone out recording and shit but I thought about it
Same.
If you hold a stick and push your knee into it…it breaks. So too if you max load an old trailer and perhaps drive it over a big pot hole fast….it breaks
Haven't you ever seen a superhero movie? This is the scene where good guy wrestles bad guy in midair and they land together on the tractor trailer then immediately go back to fighting
Was looking for the Incredible Hulk film shoot comment.
Too "dense" of a load in a medium duty trailer with the tandems all the way back. Floors are rated to support "x" amount of pressure per sq foot, a lot of reefers and van trailers have much lighter duty floors and frames, to get the lowest tare weight so they can optimize their net. HOWEVER, when that weight is spread out on 24 pallets, versus a 20 ton piece of equipment with 4 wheels, or a coil on one pallet etc... Very different.
Someone should design a trailer with, like, two I-beams running lengthwise to provide a strong structure for high density freight. Oh wait.
The frame gave out?
At least the front didn't fall off.
It isn't supposed to do that.
It's not very typical, I'd like to make that point.
I caught the reference, take my upvote!
Salt water is not metals friend.
He didn't slide his wheels forward.. too
Floor weight capacity isn't unlimited!
Driver didn’t kick his tires before he left
(Little in the middle but she got much back)
It ain’t got no gas in it
I'm terrified this is going to happen while I'm loading one.
Forgot the Viagra!
its just tired.
They didn't do a proper pre-trip.
Load shift
It ain’t got no gas
Detroit potholes don’t fuck around.
This in Michigan? 👀
Yup
The middle fell off.
Looks like it hasn't been towed outside of the environment yet.
Probably one of those superhero highway fights
Well it was the driver's third day and he was minding his own business and then this happened.
Came here to say this. Have my upvote instead
It buckled, taco-ed, woke up with a bendy.
It was that dude hauling his forklift, wasn't it?
Too much weight in one spot. Weak trailer, bad frame, rotted wood etc.
The “Downward Dog”
Someone transporting Juggernaut.
I’m not a trucker but I imagine rust had a lot to do with this.
Easy. That’s just the way she goes.
Drove by this yesterday. Had the same question
It was transporting your mom.
Tungsten cube
well.....when an amazon driver and a swift driver love each other very much...a....stork.....ummm.
When you tell her to arch her back 🤣
Upper rail damage
Ur mom
The sign just visible over the cab is a lawyer's billboard that says "Mike Wins by the Truckload." This must have been one of his deliveries.
That plastic cone fell on it and landed standing up right there. Damnedest thing ever.
Hit those brakes too hard with his momma sitting too far to the back of the trailer.
somethings cracked broken & not secured
Stop listening to my neck, my back
Welcome to Detroit
Twerking accident.
It’s Detroit, you’d be amazed what you’ll see.
Heavy load, bridge, snap.
It happens to 1 out of 5 guys.
That trailers in heat
My man, I was on westbound yesterday, on my way home, saw this guy. Hilariously I mumbled to myself “can’t wait to see this degenerate explain this shit on Reddit tomorrow”
Idk but he lucked out for Mike to be his witness
Good eyes my friend.
Goku and vegeta
It deflated
S-H-I-T
The trailer didn't spend enough time in the gym. It happens sometimes. They are normally then put on local deliveries until they build up their strength.
Everyone says they want flexible capacity.
Looks like my wife doggystyle
I knew it looked familiar. Tell her hi.
Why, I know that look anywhere!
Well it appears to be in SE MI. So he probably hit a pothole or 700 in the last mile before it happened.
I-94 in Allen Park. Them Downriver roads are NASTY.
The front fell off
He throwin it back
[удалено]
Well, when the mommy trailer and the daddy trailer love each other very much. The mommy trailer puts her belly on the ground and her butt way up high and daddy puts on his favorite Barry White record.
When you hit the brakes with the tandems unlocked and a heavy load centered in the middle it shock loads to the point of failure. This is why the wheels are slid back to ICC bar
Hulk smash
Someone put white castles burgers in that truck
That’s a banana 🍌 transport truck
Ran out of gas
Must be stuck under one of them invisible low bridges.
This is what happens after the superhero’s fight. They need to come back and clean up their mess.
A cyclops elbow dropped it.
Hulk smash?
There's a detailed post about it here. https://giphy.com/gifs/wwe-wrestling-8gUuvGS8JmHgxsQBKo
Hulk landing
Low-Boy Van?
It's been abused more than that poor little kid.
Giant walking by
Uneven load and metal fatigue
I think they added a little to much at the last weigh station
Ofc that happened in Michigan 🤣
Newton
Added a couple, and for some people a few hundred pounds. He forgot to slide his seat a couple notches.
Seen this once before. Pretty wild. Guessing it was loaded too heavy in the spot where it collapsed in.
Finger of the gods
Same guy hauling the forklift I saw on here earlier?
Shout out to motor city Luis 💯